Smyrna times., 1887-10-05

Opening Oh AAAAas
,-u, the North, 100 A. NJ, and S.SOP.M
EIo ,o he south, % and ll.3O A. n.
County and State Items.
Miss Belle Appleton, of Odessa, left
last week for a twO-months' visit tC
Ohio.
The college boys at Newark drill
ovsrv dav the weather is fit. There is
Some talk of them buying suits.
Adiutant General Kenney is about
forming company of sharp shooters
rom our Delaware crack marksmen.
Mrs. Mary TOrbet has sold her 49,
acre farm near Glendale to Miss Mary
p Richards, of Milford. Price, $1,000.
RAYMOND & Gildersleeve, of Camden.
are closing out their stock of general
merchandise and will discontinue bus
mess there.
Charles Baker has sold his farm of
eighty acres, lying about one mile
south of Harrington, to Mrs. Sarah A.
Williams, OF Wyoming.
FEE. Clements has purchased of his
brother, DR.. 7. o. Clements, the home
farm in West Dover Hundred, and will
remove to it next March.
Burglars piled their vocation success
mlly in Delaware City last week, en-
tering two stores, but did not obtain
much booty for their trouble.
A special train of ninteen cars, load
ed with stock from the Dover fair, ar
rived at Wilmington Sunday EN- route
for the Cecil county fair at ElktOn, Md.
On Sunday week ninety eight proba-
TONERS were received into full member
ship in the NJ. E. church at Frederick
of which the Rev. T. H. Haynes is pas
tor.
William R. McCabe, Speaker of the
HOnse of Representatives,, has been
commissioned assistant adjutant-gener-
al with the rank of colonel, by Gov
ornOr Bggs.
Daniel Cowgirl, formerly of Dover
but of late years residing with his son,
Dr. C. A. Cowgirl, at Penn, Florida,
died at that place on Friday week at |
the advanced age of 50 years.
The leading merchants of Dover
have beeu ~ wei pleased with closing
their stores at o'clock in the evening
during the Summer, that they will con-
tinue to close during the Winter
Two fires occurred in Mispillion HIM.
bred last month The first DESTROYED the
dwelling on the farm of Hezekiah Sapp.
loss 81 600; the second the dwelling of
John Greenley, whose loss is about $500.
The iron chimney stack, sixty feet
long and weighing 100 pounds. of he
electric light plant at Milford, Was .,rt
up last week; 1t will take another
month before the town is fully illumi-
mated.
The Sasser Journal has done much
to create demand for a change in the
Constitution, but the appointments of
B. I. Biggs have done more to convince
the people that the power of aDDoint-
menl should not be vested in the Gov
ernOr than all the editorials of the
Journal. -Break1oater Light.
From the report Of the Com
missioner of Pensions for 1887. we
learn that for the quarter ending June
q 1887, the pension list for this State
was Kent, 223 pensioners, paid Sc. zoe.
New Castle, 52l pensioners, paid SIS,
!oO sussex, l45 pensioners paid s., 500.
~. Total for the quarter, SOS, 545.5O
Harry Martindale, the young tele-
graph operator who was so seriously
wounded by the accidental DISCHARGE
ora gun some weeks ago, has so far re.
covered as to be able to resume his DIN.
ues and he will take the position as
Hg1t operator at Harrington. He snf- (
e .L tne loss of the forefnger and
numb of his left hand. :
representative John Harrington of 8
south Murderkill DIR. VIII. Cooner
u u Aenton J. Frank Denney. of Dnck g
Ireek Samuel D. Roe, of South Mnr-
qerKiIl W. 7. HutsOn, of Little Greek
Jas L. Heverin, of East Dover and
James K. Powell, of west Dover arc
o y OF as candidates for the Office I
VI neglster of Wills for Kent County.
Inc new law dispensing with the loco.
5 ,-U'nse y whistle IS not giving satisfaction
~, Io.H tue state. Drivers of teams saw
'ua' frequently, on account of stronS
, "iaIS' tney cannot hear the hell rin9
o ul.li within a few yards of them. The : :
co r'aoH men men are also complaining be- +
wotoL sshey nave to keep a constant
TD ~Son iUr approaching trains, whereas
s sDuer l1e whistle they could hear an 7
r ~ train several miles away. t
P..u Dover correspondent of the b
, ,aS. ETg,enlng in speaking of the Fair
~ mat the management has NOT
~ T't .Ie unuen money this year because
D /, .ae unpropitiOus weather is Of conrso L
arSss well settled, but those who v
tioSS i 4. " Know state that the associo. a
m s - very little if anything behind J
tbe %, -aLse list OF entries about squared t
ana "Sg purses, and the privileges
eovo - -,II tickets sold will abont
M NJ Tue other premiums and expenses L
o,o Lnere Is thrifty two-vear.old neo,b <
S .SIafu Of 1000 trees. of which a 49, l
MilorSS Iruit this season, on a farm near 2
timba'u which was set in new land the =
re .aIvr having just been removed. It's L
aiorsst conversion f into an orchard of +
such mn, me old growers deprecated Il
the os 100 work and were certain that y
rawns suo as would fail because of the 2
planted Oh. Oi the soil but the owner of it :,
iuIv cn,, WIN care and has since care -
res1l, Sui'i ,td the trees with excellent :
'1Iu.i'S'-AhJOrd Ne1os. -'''e"' 2
II Is reDorted e. =, o
Demoera,sni, 'nree hundred influential I
signed tba o.,G o. Sussex county had a
held in tS. can Tor a mass meeting to be Il
interest ', of town on Tuesday in the t,
the oon, - constitutional reform and d
explains an This announcement =
ware Ds,I sne desperation of the Della.
Ing refoTw T Of that town in oppos-
b1bdreS iua When there are fbree